Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan Tauseef

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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major public health problems all over the world especially in developing countries.The current study was design to assess the frequency distribution of suspected TB patients and find out the treatment success rate at Civil Hospital Barikot, Swat Pakistan.A retrospective study was conducted from 1 st January 2014 to 31 st December 2014.A total of 211 suspected TB patients comprised male to female ratio was (44.08%) and (55.92%) respectively were included in the study.Among the total registered patients (40.28%) were pulmonary tuberculosis positive (PTB +ve), (33.65%) were pulmonary tuberculosis negative (PTB -ve) and (26.07%) were extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB).In term of treatment outcomes, (21.33%) were cured and (76.78%) were treatment completed while all the registered cases were new cases.It was concluded that the treatment success rate was notified high (98.1%).
Pakistan was one of the top five countries in the world where TB cases (0.3 to 0.5) million were recorded.India (2 to 2.5), South Africa (0.4 to 0.6), China (0.9 to 1.1) and Indonesia (0.4 to 0.5) million cases were recorded respectively.According to WHO survey Incidence and Prevalence of TB in Pakistan were recorded about 230 to 310 per hundred thousand deaths occur in which 39 per hundred thousand due to TB infection (Saleem et al., 2013).TB disease is treatable but the cost of treatment is very costly for poor countries.The disease and death ratio can be decreases if the cost of treatment and applying proper preventive measure were assure.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
The present was aimed to assess frequency distribution of suspected TB patients and find out the treatment success rate at Civil Hospital Barikot, Swat Pakistan.A retrospective study was conducted from 1 st January 2014 to 31 st December 2014 and the data were collected from the TB patients register.The ethical permission was granted by the higher authority of the hospital.

DISCUSSIONS
In our study the prevalence of PTB +ve cases among the total registered suspected TB patients at Barikot was reported (40.28%).The prevalence rate of our study was lower from the finding of others studies (Ahmad and Jadoon, 2015;Ahmad et al.,2015).
On the basis of gender wise distribution of PTB +ve patients slightly high No. of cases was observed in female (20.85%), (19.43%) in male.The finding of our study was similar result with other studies (Ahmad and Jadoon, 2015;Ahmad et al., 2014;Ahmad et al., 2013;Ayazet al., 2012).
In the studied cases maximum No. of positive cases among PTB +ve patients was recorded in age 15-24 (9.48%), while low No. of cases was reported in age 0-14 years (1.42%).A study carried out by Ahmad and Jadoon (2015)

Table 1 :
Socio demographic characteristics of registered TB patients at Civil Hospital Barikot (n=211).

Table 2 :
Treatment outcomes of the registered TB patients at Civil Hospital Barikot (n=211).